The lemon cake is very soft and very fragrant thanks to the combination of lemon and white rum. An easy recipe to make and a treat for the taste buds…
Lemon cake
Equipment
- Cake mold 20 cm long and 8 cm wide
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 210 g caster sugar
- 200 g cake flour
- 4 g baking powder
- 1 dl whole liquid cream
- 70 g butter
- 2 zest lemon
- 3 cl white rum
Lemon syrup :
- 8 cl water
- 40 g caster sugar
- 1 lemon juice
Other :
- Apricot jam for the topping
Instructions
- Break the eggs into the whisk tank, add the sugar then whisk during 5 min or so until you get a white mixture.
- Stop whisking and add the zest from lemons.
- Add the cream and the white Rhum, then whisk again for a few minutes.
- Add the sieved flour and the baking powder, then mix with a wooden spatula.
- Add the melted and cooled butter then whisk.
- Butter and flour a 20 cm long and 8 cm wide (approximately) cake pan.
- Pour the mixture into the cake pan.
- Bake the lemon cake during approximately 1 hour in a 160°C preheated oven, while keeping an eye on the cooking process.
- For the lemon syrup, mix together 80 g of water, 40 g of sugar and some lemon juice, then bring it to boil.
- Once baked and cooled down, remove the cake from the cake pan on a metal grid, then soak it with the lukewarm lemon syrup and a paint brush.
- Coat the top of the lemon cake with some melted apricot jam, then decorate it according to your imagination.
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